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Cloud Computing’s Green Potential
Tom Raftery
Digital Trends 2011 - Green ICT & Cloud Computing
December 2011
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Tom Raftery• Lead analyst, energy and
sustainability practice, RedMonk
• CIX, Chip & Zenith
• GreenMonk.net
• twitter.com/tomraftery
• +34 677 695 468
• SlideShare.net/TomRaftery
CIX, Chip & Zenith - involvement with Cloud, going back to late 90’s
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Who are you?
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/warmestregards/2789694551
Deployed cloud solutions? Or plan to...How many think Cloud is Green?
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Cloud Computing?
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/saxoji/3157404267/
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Browser delivered
First blush - it is simply browser delivered software - but much more now
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Nothing New
Launched July 1996 - one of the 1st widely used SaaS applicationsGoes back to mainframe computing in the 60’s
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SaaS
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiewic/4227455448/
Social Networks, Zoho, Google Apps, SlideShare, Dropbox, etc.
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PaaS
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhke/383366149/
PaaS is like abstracting SaaS back one level - deploying, as a service, the platform to dev/rollout SaaS appsForce.com, Google AppEngine, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Foundry, AppScale, etc
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IaaS
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/br1dotcom/4297727518/
IaaS abstracts back another level, making hardware (network, disk, cpu) available as a service Amazon EC2, S3, OpenStack, VMWare, Rackspace CloudForms
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Huh?
Image http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/14/cloud-iaas-paas-saas/
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Types
Image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cloud_computing_types.svg
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Energy Efficient?
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Energy & Carbon?
Link http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/nov10/11-04CloudBenefitsPR.mspx
Microsoft, Accenture and WSP Environment & Energy Study Shows Significant Energy and Carbon Emissions Reduction Potential From Cloud Computing
November 2010
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Energy & Carbon?
Link http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/nov10/11-04CloudBenefitsPR.mspx
Microsoft, Accenture and WSP Environment & Energy Study Shows Significant Energy and Carbon Emissions Reduction Potential From Cloud Computing
November 2010
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Streamlining
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosimoes7/201099447/
Traditional servers:RFP -> PO -> Order -> delivery -> Image -> Patch -> Apps ->Test -> deploy - (weeks -> months)
CloudPO often not necessary (not large capital expense) - Order & deploy (minutes->hours)Streamlining - faster to purchase & deploy virtual servers than physical ones
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Dynamic Provisioning
Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/traftery/3116297464/
Dynamic Provisioning
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Multi-tenancy
Photo http://www.worldrecordsacademy.org/transport/most_people_crammed_in_%20a_BMW_Mini_Dance_company_sets_world_record_112074.html
Multi-tenancy
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Server Utilisation
Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/playerx/3127007481/
Traditional servers under-utilisedCloud ones?
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Chasing the moon
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/traftery/5546154606/
Chasing the moon
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Ubiquitous Information
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/citrixonline/5447248934/
Ubiquitous access to information enables work from anywhere (with a connection!)
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Tele-working
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/citrixonline/5447248262/
About 25% of IBM's 320,000 workers worldwide telecommute from home offices, saving $700 million in real estate costs.
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Energy Efficient?
Less commuting &Less building stock - yes
But less energy consumption or offsetting?
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Energy Efficient?
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”
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Energy Efficient?
Hands up exercise...
Hands up if you have you moved some of your applications to a Cloud provider
Keep your hands up if you know what the energy consumption of that application was before moving it to the cloud
Keep your hands up if you know the energy consumption of your application after it has moved to the Cloud
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Energy Efficient?
Without data, no way to know, but...
Given lack of data - impossible to say
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Energy Efficient ≠ Green
Common mistake is to conflate energy efficiency with Green
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Green?
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CDC Report
https://www.cdproject.net/en-US/WhatWeDo/Pages/Cloud-Computing.aspx
“A typical food & beverage firm transitioning its human resources (HR) application from dedicated IT to a public cloud can reduce CO2 emissions by 30,000 metric tons over five years”
Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st CenturyCDC &Verdantix
July 2011
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CDC Report
https://www.cdproject.net/en-US/WhatWeDo/Pages/Cloud-Computing.aspx
“allowing companies to maximize performance, drive down costs, reduce inefficiency and minimize energy use – and therefore carbon emissions”
Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st CenturyCDC &Verdantix
July 2011
Association of energy & carbon is a fundamental error - depends on the source of the energy (renewable vs fossil fuel)
Reducing energy use doesn’t necessarily reduce CO2
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Takedown
http://greenmonk.net/carbon-disclosure-projects-emissions-reduction-claims-for-cloud-computing-are-flawed/
Based on assumptions and a PUE-based model - could just as easily increase emissions by 30,000 tons
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PUE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_usage_effectiveness
Power usage effectiveness (PUE): ratio of total amount of power used by a data center, to the power delivered to
computing equipment.
Hands up who has heard of/knows what PUE is...
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PUE?
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/286709039/
Traditionally, no standard for where it is metered (some at HV, some at MV, some at LV) - includes all conversions (and losses) or not
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PUE?
IT Equipment Total Power PUE
1MW 2MW 2.0
0.75MW 1.75MW 2.33
http://datacenterdesign.blogspot.com/2009/07/linkedin-discussion-on-power-usage.html
No account taken of the efficiency of use of IT equipmentTurning off unused servers reduces your consumption but PUE goes up!
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PUE?Data Centre Supply Carbon Intensity PUE IT Carbon Intensity
Typical 0.5kg CO2/kWh 1.5 0.75kg CO2/kWh
Good PUE mostly coal-fired power 0.8kg CO2/kWh 1.2 0.96kg CO2/kWh
Poor PUE but mostly renewables 0.2kg CO2/kWh 3.0 0.6kg CO2/kWh
http://www.romonet.com/blog/coal-fired-clouds
In US - most Cloud Dc’s are coal powered as it is lowest cost elecDC with good PUE run on coal-fired power emits 50% more CO2/kWh than DC with poor PUE run on mostly renewablesElec supply is more impt than PUE is assessing how Green a DC isThere is a CUE metric but is poorly adopted atm
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Green?
http://greenmonk.net/carbon-disclosure-projects-emissions-reduction-claims-for-cloud-computing-are-flawed/
“A typical food & beverage firm transitioning its human resources (HR) application from dedicated IT to a public cloud can increase CO2 emissions by 30,000 metric tons over five years”
Carbon Disclosure Project’s emissions reduction claims for cloud computing are flawed
GreenMonkJuly 2011
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Photo http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=193287527693&aid=183026
A practical example of this is...
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Green?
http://opencompute.org/about/energy-efficiency/
“As of the end of Q3 2011, the Prineville data center had a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.08... much lower than the industry standard of 1.5.
Facebook’s energy consumption per unit of computing power has declined by 38%”
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PacificCorp
http://www.pacificorp.com/es/mining.html
58% of its energy from coal and another 12% from gas so over 70% from fossil fuel directly.
22.5% is purchased from other suppliers so could also be fossil fuel.
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Spain
https://demanda.ree.es/generacion_acumulada.html
Coal averaging around 20%Gas around 14%Wind around 25%
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Spain
https://demanda.ree.es/generacion_acumulada.html
Coal around 9%Gas around 30%Wind around 25%
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Dublin
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/08/07/lightning-in-dublin-knocks-amazon-microsoft-data-centers-offline/
MicrosoftAmazonGoogleIBMSunGardDigital Realty Trust
All have significant DC’s in Dublin
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Green?
http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/electricitystatistics/
Ireland sources 84% of electricity from fossil fuels
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OTOH...
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iCloud
Photo http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/23/apple-tells-shareholders-north-carolina-data-center-is-for-itune/
Apple’s iCloud 500,000 sq ft data center in North CarolinaDuke energy 78% coal & nuclear (nuclear has enormous water footprint)
Apple solar data center? 121-acre site cleared for solar http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/23/apple-green-solar-data-centre
Greenwash?
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Google & PPA’s
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/reducing-our-carbon-footprint-with.html
PPA’s mean security of energy pricing for 20 yearsREC’s for excess
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Google & PPA’s
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/oklahoma-where-wind-comes-sweepin-down.html
PPA’s mean security of energy pricing for 20 yearsREC’s for excess
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Other Google initiatives
http://www.google.com/green/collaborations/investments.html
• Google invested in early-stage companies such as Makani Power and Potter Drilling
• Invested $75 million to create a fund that will help up to 3,000 homeowners go solar
• Invested $280 million in a SolarCity fund to help provide innovative financing for residential solar projects
• Invested $178 million into utility-scale solar project called Ivanpah, in Mojave Desert
• Invested a 37.5% equity stake in the critical early-stage development of the Atlantic Wind Connection
• Invested a total of $157 million in two projects totaling 270 MW at the Alta Wind Energy Center
• Invested $100 million into 845MW Shepherd’s Flat windfarm
• $38.8 million in two wind farms in North Dakota
• First international investment of €3.5 million in a solar facility in Brandenburg, Germany
9 bullet points on a single slide is a record for meIn fact, 9 bullet points in a single presentation is normally way above my average!
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Having said that...
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Jevons Paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Having said that...
UK Economist William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)As steam engines become more efficient, consumption of coal increases!
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Parkinson’s Law
Data expands to fill the space available for storage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law
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Promotes Consumption
GMail 1GB mail limit - now 7.5GB
Cloud promotes consumption - not Green
Gmail - 1GB mail limit - when HotMail had 2mb & Yahoo! had 4mb
GMail has 25mb. Suddenly people could use the resource, so they didUnlimited storage
If we had to live in a more constrained world, we could
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Promotes Consumption
http://mrflip.github.com/wukong/INSTALL.html
"EC2 means anyone with a $10 bill can rent a 10-machine cluster, with 1TB of distributed storage, for 8 hours"
Infochimps’ CTO Flip Kromer
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Green?
Not very Green!
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Green?
Confused yet?
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Irony?
Cloud delivered Green software...
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Irony?
http://www.sapcarbonimpact.com/
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Boom!
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tzofia/270800047/
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Conclusion
Cloud Computing has many advantages
Being Green is not one of them.
Given it is delivered using fossil fuelsAnd it drives further consumption
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One last thing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXk25TUSRQ
ευχαριστώ!Contact information:
Tom RafteryLead Analyst, Energy & Sustainability, RedMonk
[email protected], GreenMonk.net,
Twitter.com/tomraftery+34 677 695 468
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